NAME

Bio::Map::LinkagePosition - Create a Position for a Marker that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap

SYNOPSIS

    use Bio::Map::Position;
    my $position = Bio::Map::LinkagePosition->new(-positions => 1,
                                                 -distance => 22.1 );

        # can get listing of positions
    my @positions = $position->each_position;

DESCRIPTION

Position for a Bio::Map::MarkerI compliant object that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap. See Bio::Map::MarkerI and Bio::Map::LinkageMap for details

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR - Chad Matsalla

Email bioinformatics1@dieselwurks.com

CONTRIBUTORS

Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org Jason Stajich jason@bioperl.org Sendu Bala bix@sendu.me.uk

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $obj = Bio::Map::LinkagePosition->new(-positions => $position,
                                                                   -distance => $distance);
 Function: Builds a new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition object
 Returns : Bio::Map::LinkagePosition
 Args    : -order => the relative order of this marker on a linkage map
               -positions => positions on a map

Bio::Map::PositionI methods

order

 Title   : order
 Usage   : $o_position->order($order)
           my $order = $o_position->order()
 Function: get/set the order position of this position in a map
 Returns : int
 Args    : none to get, int to set